Ex Machina: Celebrating 11 Years of the Oscar-Winning Sci-Fi Classic

Will SayreSat, April 25, 2026 at 4:49 AM UTC

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With the new season of Netflix's Beef, the versatile Oscar Isaac further proves he can tackle just about any character.

The Emmy-nominated actor, 47, came onto the scene well over a decade ago, and one his finest films celebrated 11 years since its release on Friday, April 24.

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From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Alex Garland, Ex Machina also stars Alicia Vikander and Domhnall Gleeson (the male lead in Taylor Swift's "Opalite" music video), and went down as one of the great science-fiction films of the 21st century. Ex Machina holds an impressive 92% average critics' rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on nearly 300 reviews.

Here's the film's official synopsis: Caleb Smith (Gleeson) a programmer at a huge Internet company, wins a contest that enables him to spend a week at the private estate of Nathan Bateman (Isaac), his firm's brilliant CEO. When he arrives, Caleb learns that he has been chosen to be the human component in a Turing test to determine the capabilities and consciousness of Ava (Vikander), a beautiful robot. However, it soon becomes evident that Ava is far more self-aware and deceptive than either man imagined.

Business Insider ranksEx Machina at No. 25 on its list of 100 Best Movies of the Decade (2010s), writing: "Writer/director Alex Garland's "Ex Machina" is an artificial intelligence/philosophy 101 lecture presented as a gripping sci-fi thriller (and I mean that in the best way possible). The script expertly reveals just the right amount of new information to constantly make the audience second guess everything they know about the characters, all the while exploring the question of what it means to be human."

Parade reported on another hit film from 2015 recently, since the original movie from its franchise had celebrated its own milestone earlier this month. On April 12, 1979, the O.G. Mad Max was released in Australia. Decades later, the same director gave us the Oscar-winning Mad Max: Fury Road, starring Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron.

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